Preschool - 2nd Grade Common Core Social Studies Worksheets

Help your first grader learn basic terms for position and direction. He'll practice identifying left or right, as well as the cardinal directions, and more!

Children use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of community helpers to select the odd picture out.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Learn about George Washington with this reading comprehension challenge.

Help your child visualize the passing of time in this easy timeline craft.

Learn about the USA's three branches of government and where each one works.

Get to know the White House and the U.S. Capitol in this social studies matching worksheet!

What is a service job? This worksheet helps your students think critically about the different jobs people have and what they do in those jobs.

In this inventive map-reading worksheet, children will practice using a map and a legend to uncover information.

Challenge your students to demonstrate their understanding of rural, urban, and suburban communities with this vocabulary worksheet.

Children are introduced to the life and accomplishments of aeronautics pioneer Amelia Earhart in this fascinating worksheet.

Get your rafts ready, it's time to take a trip down the major rivers of the United States! Read the clues to figure out how to lable each river on this map.

Use this civics and government worksheet to help second and third graders learn about elections!

Children use their critical thinking skills and knowledge of community helpers to select the odd picture out.

Children learn about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks in this history worksheet.

Get to know pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson in this reading comprehension worksheet!

Children practice differentiating between past and present in this Venn diagram sorting activity.

In this playful matching activity, learners will connect workers to their tools and equipment by drawing lines from each job title to the correct corresponding item.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Children use their investigative skills and powers of deduction to complete a series of questions and prompts about their local government.  

In this historical heroes worksheet, second and third graders read a short passage about Owens' life and legacy, then answer the comprehension questions to help determine their understanding.

Find presidential and historical words in this election-themed word search.

This social studies worksheet is a great way to encourage the next generation to understand the value and impact of voting while helping learners practice reading comprehension strategies.

Explore history with famous female navigator Sacagawea. Sacagawea was a Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark find their way across the west.

This worksheet introduces United States symbols for kids. Does your child know that every country has symbols that are special to its citizens?

Which types of landmarks do you recognize in your neighborhood? Get outdoors with your little one and explore your community.

Children learn the inspiring life story of historical hero Frederick Douglass, who rose from slavery to become a preeminent leader of the abolitionist movement, in this worksheet.

This longitude and latitude worksheet challenges kids to find the locations of cities on a map. Practice geography with this longitude and latitude worksheet.

Children read the First Amendment, then complete a simple word scramble puzzle and answer reading comprehension questions.

Learn the basic facts about the U.S. flag and see the different places where it's waved.